428 Powerful Edgar Allan Poe Quotes to Inspire You
1. “And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses? – now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound well, too. It was the beating of the old man’s heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.”
Edgar Allan Poe
Madness, Perception, Sound, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Complexity, Psychological Horror
2. “In the tale proper – where there is no space for development of character or for great profusion and variety of incident – mere construction is, of course, far more imperatively demanded than in the novel.”
Edgar Allan Poe Storytelling, Narrative Structure, Character, Philosophical Insight, Literary Analysis, Artistic Integrity
7. “That she loved me I should not have doubted; and I might have been easily aware that, in a bosom such as hers, love would have regained no ordinary passion. But in death only was I fully impressed with the strength of her affection.”
Edgar Allan Poe Love, Loss, Realization, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Complexity, Human Connection
13. “There may be a class of beings, human once, but now invisible to humanity, to whom, from afar, our disorder may seem order – our unpicturesqueness picturesque, in a word, the earth-angels, for whose scrutiny more especially than our own, and for whose death – refined appreciation of the beautiful, may have been set in array by God the wide landscape-gardens of the hemispheres.”
Edgar Allan Poe Humanity, Perception, Beauty, Philosophical Insight, Spiritual Reflection, Artistic Interpretation
15. “There can be no doubt that the consciousness of the rapid increase of my superstition – for why should I not so term it? – served mainly to accelerate the increase itself. Such, I have long known, is the paradoxical law of all sentiments having terror as a basis.”
Edgar Allan Poe Superstition, Fear, Consciousness, Philosophical Reflection, Emotional Complexity, Existential Insight
30. “All in the immediate vicinity of the ship is the blackness of eternal night, and a chaos of foamless water; but, about a league on either side of us, may be seen, indistinctly and at intervals, stupendous ramparts of ice, towering away into the desolate sky, and looking like the walls of the universe.”
Edgar Allan Poe Nature, Isolation, Vastness, Existential Reflection, Poetic Imagery, Cosmic Perspective
